hvusslax

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by hvusslax 4y ago
The Hungarian system is basically two separate elections at once where the results are just added together. There are single-member districts where the candidate that wins the plurality of votes in the district is elected (almost always a F
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by hvusslax 4y ago
The Netherland has pretty much the same system as Israel, there is slight geographic representation but nationwide party votes do dictate the composition of parliament. All the Nordic countries also use a proportional system with multi-memb
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by hvusslax 4y ago
Coming from a non-Anglosphere country with a long tradition of proportional voting, this idea of "my" representative has simply never made any sense to me. How can a member of a legislative body represent voters that didn't a
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by hvusslax 5y ago
I can understand fixed sites for natural resources. The coal mine is where the coal is. But historically, the sites chosen for manufacturing industry are determined by what is logistically feasible. The factory goes where the railroad is, n
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by hvusslax 5y ago
This is the norm in many places in Europe and elsewhere. 6 year olds walking to school by themselves and crossing multiple roads on the way. America is a bit different. It is also built completely differently when it comes to car-oriented i
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by hvusslax 5y ago
Domesticated farm animals are far enough removed from their wild cousins to be their own species. They have been selectively bred over millenia for traits that make them easy to exploit for humans. Most of those traits work against them in
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by hvusslax 5y ago
Is the BTicino plug ( https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Italian2.html ) used at all in Italy now? There was a serious attempt at adopting it in Iceland in the late 1970s to early 1980s. These sockets can still be found in homes
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by hvusslax 5y ago
I often wonder how large a portion of all crypto holders are just FOMO-ing into a speculative asset because the number keeps going up, with no loyalty to the concept of cryptocurrency or its use cases.
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by hvusslax 5y ago
You did not need to break your contemplative silence to write this empty pretentious drivel. OP asked a question. I gave what seems to me to be the obvious answer.
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by hvusslax 5y ago
"What you call a 'tyranny of the minority' is in fact an equal representation of classes..." Arbitrary geographical lines don't define classes. Every state has both rural and urban segments. Is the "rural prole
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by hvusslax 5y ago
Inheriting constitutionally priveliged positions seems a bit hard to square with everyone being equal before the law.
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by hvusslax 5y ago
It is simply an historical artifact and by no means a constitutional necessity. Sweden is an interesting case, a constitutional monarchy in theory but where the monarch has been explicitly stripped of all powers, whereas many other European
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by hvusslax 5y ago
Even just 24 hours would do a lot to disrupt the echo chamber.